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Bippzy
United States1466 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:21 SecondChance wrote: Too late, my time has come Sends shivers down my spine Body's aching all the time Goodbye everybody - I've got to go Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth + Show Spoiler + I feel like evil genius should eat another team. Also, progamers make barely enough money, thats the end of it. | ||
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zaii
Guam2611 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:23 Loxley wrote: ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/riptide/liquid/icanhascheezburger.jpg) A Challenger Appears! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Jr8gz.jpg) sweet mother of mercy..... that is brilliant!!!! | ||
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Ipp
United States456 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:09 Lordwar wrote: 15k per year is alot of money for playing starcraft all day long in training house. Get real guys If the training house supplies food, sure it may be ok. But lets be serious you are a pro gamer making 15k/y for 5 years that is a total of 75k (~50k after taxes) for 5 years of your life. If you save 100% of it, you would be on a nice start to a retirement plan. However after you finish your progaming career where do you go? You're ~25 with a pretty bad resume, your hope is to stay within the scene as a commentator, writer, etc. That savings you had over the course of 5 years will mostly used up by the time you get back on your feet. Last but not least, lets say they practice 56 Hours per week (I'm sure some put in 70+). That comes just under $7 per hour, factor that in with they are the best in that particular field of work, its a very very small number even I can top that number by streaming. I'm not saying progaming isn't lucrative, but 15k/y is a horrible estimate. Didn't Destiny say he gets at least 50k/y on his own? | ||
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FyyN
Austria17 Posts
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Femari
United States2900 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:25 mprs wrote: ... What if you live in a fully payed-for house with food provided? Say perhaps.... a pro-gaming house. That's fine, but people were saying you could live on that alone. That's where the whole thing came from. | ||
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Revelatus
United States183 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:25 mprs wrote: ... What if you live in a fully payed-for house with food provided? Say perhaps.... a pro-gaming house. Then as I said, you would probably be pretty well off with that kind of help. But I wouldn't consider their salary 15k if they're getting 20k worth of benefits on top of that. | ||
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jelle
Denmark88 Posts
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rotegirte
Germany2859 Posts
Wow great stuff! | ||
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nucleo
292 Posts
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ellirc
Sweden3286 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:24 wIIKlol wrote: well I dont know much about how expencive it is to live in the US, but with 15-20k USD a year = 90-110k Norwegian kroner, you cant really live in Norway.. Its hard to live with 30k a year in Norway... when thats said, I dont think you find a job in Norway where you earn less than 30k a year... But we're not talking about Norway. I make 350-400k NOK(60-70k USD) a year to get by by myself with no education at all. That money would make me a king in many countries, but you can't make that kind of a comparison... | ||
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Choboo
Sweden2088 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:27 Ipp wrote: If the training house supplies food, sure it may be ok. But lets be serious you are a pro gamer making 15k/y for 5 years that is a total of 75k (~50k after taxes) for 5 years of your life. If you save 100% of it, you would be on a nice start to a retirement plan. However after you finish your progaming career where do you go? You're ~25 with a pretty bad resume, your hope is to stay within the scene as a commentator, writer, etc. That savings you had over the course of 5 years will mostly used up by the time you get back on your feet. Last but not least, lets say they practice 56 Hours per week (I'm sure some put in 70+). That comes just under $7 per hour, factor that in with they are the best in that particular field of work, its a very very small number even I can top that number by streaming. I'm not saying progaming isn't lucrative, but 15k/y is a horrible estimate. Didn't Destiny say he gets at least 50k/y on his own? The difference between Destiny and other progamers is that the other progamers win serious cash in tournaments also. | ||
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Sanchonator
Australia490 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:27 nucleo wrote: didnt i hear somewhere that Hayder is a vegetarian? tofu burger perhaps ? | ||
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crackcc
114 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:24 arbitrageur wrote: GDP/capita does nothing to reveal whether this is occurring. Why not ? Are the poor using mules ? | ||
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tabbott26
United Kingdom379 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:22 insaneMicro wrote: I will never live the life of an EG progamer T_T That said, only 38 minutes left, and the last soundfile is still not up. Things are getting exciting! It should be 1 hr 38 mins... | ||
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FreedonNadd
Austria573 Posts
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
Machine flails | ||
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Enhancer_
Canada320 Posts
Epic burger pics. | ||
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nucleo
292 Posts
but then its not a fair contest | ||
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:27 Femari wrote: That's fine, but people were saying you could live on that alone. That's where the whole thing came from. Ah, there is no way you can live on 15k, not in America/Canada/Major European countries. Maybe you can live in some really cheap Euro country or in Asia somewhere. But 15k is also unrealistic because you get more working in mcdonalds. | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
On August 16 2011 23:27 nucleo wrote: didnt i hear somewhere that Hayder is a vegetarian? there are vegetarian burgers, hotdogs, etc. | ||
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